Effect of dietary synbiotic on growth performance, body composition, digestive enzyme activity and gut microbiota inCirrhinus mrigala(Ham.) fingerlings

Abstract

A feeding trial of 60 days was conducted to delineate the effect of dietary synbiotic on maximum growth, body composition, digestive enzyme activity and subsequently gut microbiota in Cirrhinus mrigala fingerlings. One hundred and eighty acclimatized fingerlings of mrigal with initial body weight ranging from 2.87 ± 0.01 g to 3.26 ± 0.05 g were randomly distributed in three replicates of each of four experimental groups including control (without probiotic and prebiotic), T 1 (high probiotic + low prebiotic), T 2 (low probiotic + high prebiotic) and T 3 (high probiotic + high prebiotic), using completely randomized design (CRD). Results showed that growth performance parameters, such as specific growth rate (SGR), per cent weight gain, feed conversion ratio (FCR) and protein efficiency ratio (PER), were reported to be higher in the T 2 group followed by the T 3 group. Maximum gut microbiota activity was found in the T 3 group which was significantly different from other treatment groups. Similarly, body composition and digestive enzyme activity varied significantly (p < .05) among the treatment groups. The study showed the possibility of improved nutrient utilization in terms of growth performance and digestive enzyme activity in the group following dietary synbiotic supplementation. K E Y W O R D Sdigestive enzyme, gut microbiota, prebiotic, probiotic

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“…Probiotic, prebiotic, and synbiotic supplemented diets resulted in better growth performances than that of the control (Table 2). Similar results were observed by Daniels et al (2010) in the European lobster (Homarus gammarus L.) larvae, Ai et al (2011) in juvenile large yellow croaker, ) in tilapia, Nurhayati et al (2015 in white shrimp, and Kumar et al (2017) in Cirrhinus mrigala (Ham.) fingerling.…”

“…Synbiotic treatment showed the best value in SGR, FCR, and PER compared with other treatments. Kumar et al (2017) also showed that the combined supplementation of Bacillus subtilis (100 g/kg) and MOS (4 g/kg) as synbiotic enhanced % weight gain, SGR, FCR, and PER of about 75.80, 0.94, 2.66, and 1.06%, respectively, compared to the control, in Cirrhinus mrigala (Ham.) fingerling.…”

“…A similar result also occurred in the study on the addition of synbiotic to feed which could improve protease activity in Cirrhinus mrigala (Ham.) fingerling (Kumar et al, 2017). The higher level of enzyme activity obtained with diets containing probiotic improved the digestion of protein, starch, and fat which might, in turn, explain the better growth performance observed with the synbiotic supplemented diets.…”

“…A synbiotic is defined as a combination of a probiotic and a prebiotic (Song et al, 2014;Akhter et al, 2015). It refers to nutritional supplements combining probiotics and prebiotics in the form of synergism (Kumar et al, 2017). Applications of synbiotic in the diet have been reported on growth performance, digestive enzyme activities and health status of several fish and shellfish species (Cerezuela et al, 2011;Lin et al, 2012;Zhang et al, 2013;De et al, 2014;Ringø et al, 2014;Widanarni et al, 2016).…”

Growth performance, digestive enzyme activity and immune response of Japanese sea bass, Lateolabrax japonicus fed with fructooligosaccharide

“…However, no significant differences were found in moisture and crude ash contents among FOS and MOS dietary treatment of the Japanese flounder ( Paralichthys olivaceus ) (Ye, Wang, Li, & Sun, ) and even a decrease in body fat was reported when fish was fed MOS and inulin in sharpsnout sea bream ( Diplodus puntazzo ) (Apperbossard, Feneuil, Wagner, & Respondek, ). Overall, it seems that the high body protein content implies the ingested feed was converted more effectively into structural protein and in turn prompted the growth performance (Kumar, Jain, Sardar, Jayant, & Tok, ).…”